Friends: 10 Worst Episodes

8. The One With Chandler's Dad (Season 7 Episode 22)

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Kathleen Turner guest stars as Chandler's dad in an episode centring around Monica and Chandler's attempt to invite him to their wedding. Rachel finally gets a chance to drive Monica's Porsche as she steals the keys entrusted to Ross. Phoebe and Joey have a hilarious discussion about how real men aren't ashamed by what others think regardless of what they're wearing.

What sucked: The representation of Chandler's dad hasn't aged well at all. Co-creator Marta Kauffman herself admitted she wished she had approached Chandler's dad's character differently. Friends came under a lot of fire in recent years for their misrepresentation of the LGBTQ+ community when a 50 minute YouTube video of homophobic moments from the show went viral. To be fair to Kauffman and her team of writers, she has said that Friends is very much a period piece and that those type of jokes aren't acceptable nowadays.

What didn't suck: Watching Ross trying to flirt himself out of a speeding ticket and Joey's face when he saw that Jake (Phoebe's boyfriend) was wearing ladies underwear resulting in him giving it a try for himself.

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